New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-05-21
CAUGHT UP IN TWO STUDIOS.
BITS OF TALK WHERE A PORTRAIT PAINTER AND
sCULPTOR ARE AT WORK.

BITS OF TALK WHERE a fORihAiI EAiNAHn AMI
SCULPTOR ARE AT WORK.
| r. B. Carpenter the portrait painter. Is full of
"reminiscences OF Presidents Fillmore Pierce, Tyler
and Lincoln as we'll as the Of their day. He had
sttings in the White House fro all Of these Presi
dents. 1t was while chatting the other day about
Franklin Pierce that he told story of Nathaniel Haw-
thorne. Hawthorne and Pierce were college friends
Hawthorne wrote life of Pierce. 1t hasty pro-
ducon and is seldom mentioned in the list OF Haw-
'PnsssrsT
rss National e rich wa. ssp The sasan 81
the antslavery element in the National Capital
Its editor was Dr. Bailey. Pierce was pronounced
ing him for bis views When Hawthorne's lite OF
Pierce came out DR.. Bailey wrote three-column re-
Of it Thh s @ sharp
Mr. Hawthorne was in Washington with the elder
Tcknor, OF the great publishing finn OF Iicknor q
Bailey and was DESTROYS that Hawthorne should meet
him. but the author over the review OF his
book that he refused for long time. Finally one day
when Ticknor was driving Hawthorne out for ride he
stopped at DR.. Baeys residence and invited the doc
tor into the carrage Tho author and editor on being
three INMATES the carriage rolled down the street.
Finally the author could stand 1t no longer and burst
q Dr. Bailey what in the world did you write that re-
view Of nv life OF Pierce fori Quick as a iiash Dr
Bailey replied in an equally severe tone: MI law
for 7" moment later the two men were Laughing at
the absurdity OF their EXPLANATIONS and soon became
personal friends.
In the studio OF john Rogers the blueeyed sculptor
the other day he found at work upon group,
that of chabod Crane and the Headless Horseman 1t
is double equestrian group and has been fashioned on
q scale much larger than the small groups tor which
he has become noted. Is will not DO AIDE one OF that
series but will be cast in bronze as II stands mr.
Rogers has Just finished small group entitled
Froc at the Old Homestead" which represents fonr
three plaster casts of distinguished men hanging
in Mr. Rogers's studij that attract attention-
William Lloyd Garrison the great antslavery
agtator, Henry Ward Beecher and Robert Collyer
The cast of Mr.. Beecher's face was taken nearly
eighteen years ago, when Mr.. Rogers was fash
Joining q group of ant-savery agitators. Mr.. Beecher
had been sitting for him ut intervals TOR two or three
weeks One day Mr.. Rogers suggested that be might
have saved all the sittngs by taking plaster cast OF
his iace when the great preacher replied III 1t VIII
be OF any service you can take the cast now MI
Rogers work Mt and soon finished the cast
operation. No" said Mr.. Rogers. =" lie told me
aitcrw that he nearly went to Sleep peculiarly
OF the ts marked resemblance to that or Robert
Collyer which hangs beside il. The aces are OF the
same trpe and friends of Mr.. Beecher in looking at
the two taken them both for casts OF Mr. Deecher
In talking about the sitngs that we're given him by
Mr. Garrison, the sculptor remarked that the great
agator talked constantly OF the exciting period pre-
celing the war when he attacked personally for
his artislavery opinions He rccounted to NJ Rogers
in dramatic language the story OF the sack ;ng ana
pillage of his newspaper office and tho mobs that he
had encountered az times while attempting 10
make speeches He never tired OF relating these
incidents OF his life.